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Belle L. Tseng joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 1997. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1996 and her M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from MIT in 1992. Dr. Tseng's research interests include 3-D stereoscopic systems, MPEG video CODECs, multi-viewpoint 3DTV applications, and 3-D interactive devices. At the Pervasive Multimedia Management department, she is currently working on projects involving multimedia databases, semantic understanding, personalization, and summarization. Dr. Tseng's major contributions include the MPEG-2 stereoscopic CODEC, immersive whiteboard collaboration system, rich media summarization, and personalized content adaptation.

Ching-Yung Lin joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member in October 2000. He received a B.S. and an M.S. from National Taiwan University in 1991 and 1993, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, in 2000. Dr. Lin was a wireless officer at R.O.C. Air Force, Taiwan, from 1993 to 1995, and he served as an instructor of Network Communication Lab at National Taiwan University from 1995 to 1996. His current research interests include multimedia authentication and watermarking techniques for security, multimedia semantic analysis, indexing and query, multimedia transmission and networking, Human-Computer Interaction, and multi-rate, multidimensional signal processing. Dr. Lin was the primary contributor in the design of the first successful semi-fragile content authentication system (SARI), which distinguishes JPEG/MPEG compression from malicious manipulation; and he was the primary contributor in the design of the first public/oblivious watermarking methods surviving the print-and-scan process.

John R. Smith is manager of the Pervasive Media Management Group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he leads a research team exploring techniques for multimedia content management. He is currently chairman of the MPEG Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS) group, and he serves as co-project editor for MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes. Dr. Smith received his M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1994 and 1997, respectively. His research interests include multimedia databases, multimedia content analysis, compression, indexing, and retrieval. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and a member of IEEE.

For platform(s):

• Win32

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For topics:

• automation
• digital media
• monitoring
• surveillance
• traffic surveillance
• video